Your service is aiming to encourage and support breastfeeding, provide fruit and vegetables and/or request fruit and vegetables in lunchboxes and plan positive meal environments.

Make a plan to achieve Plant Fruit and Veg in your Lunchbox

• Download the 'Plant Fruit and Veg in your Lunchbox' Starter Pack booklet


• Find events to link the Plant Fruit and Veg message to on the Move Well Eat Well Events Calendar.
• Move Well Eat Well Events Calendar (accessible)

Ideas for more fruit an veg

• Early Childhood Education and Care Healthy Eating Policy Guidelines


• Full Menu provision self assessment tool


• Snack provision self-assessment tool


• How does your garden grow? A resource for creating and growing vegetable and fruit gardens developed by the Clarence Council


• Grow it, eat it


• Gardening with Children A Family Food Patch resource


• Health on the shelf books about growing, cooking and eating food

• Warming Lunch ideas - ideas for families over the colder months

• Food safety: How to pack a hot lunch - step by step instructions for families to safely use an insulated food container (like a Thermos)

Information to share at your service

Newsletter inserts

Select and save the below jpeg files to your computer and then insert into your services newsletter. Please note that these may take some time to download.

• What milks for what age?


• Fun with fruit


• Fun with veg


• Babies and eating

• Juice is not the same as fresh fruit


• Eat a Rainbow

Posters and displays

Print out these posters to display at your service.

• Your baby's first foods


• Finding new flavours


• Eat a Rainbow poster


• Early Childhood lunchbox poster


• Healthy Plate poster

Pamphlets, fact sheets and information

Breastfeeding:

• Infant feeding fact sheets for service policy

• Breastfeeding and returning to work

• Infant formula


• Why should I breastfeed? refer to page 7


• The best foods for breastfeeding mums


• Storing and transporting breastmilk


• Weaning off bottles


• A Care Givers Guide to the Breastfed Baby (Aust. Breastfeeding Assoc.)

Eating fruit and veg:

• First foods: Food provided by the early childhood setting


• Lunchbox ideas: Meals for early childhood settings


• Food ideas for busy parents


• When to start solids


• First food recipes


• Finger food recipes

Safety:

• Food and lunchbox safety


• Food allergies - refer to page 15

Ideas for families

Let families know they can visit the For Families section of this website to find fun ideas on how they can get more fruit and veg. No password is needed.